''Gilbertolus'' is a genus of
dogtooth characin
Cynodontidae, also known as dogtooth characins or vampire tetras, are a family of predatory, characiform freshwater fishes from South America. This group is not very diverse, and includes only five genera and 14 species. Most of what is known abo ...
s from northwestern
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southe ...
, restricted to the
Atrato
Atrato is a municipality and town in the Chocó Department near the Pacific Ocean, Colombia.
Climate
Atrato has an extremely wet tropical rainforest climate
A tropical rainforest climate, humid tropical climate or equatorial climate is a trop ...
,
Magdalena and
Maracaibo
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basins.
Species
There are currently three described species in this genus.
* ''
Gilbertolus alatus''
(Steindachner
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, 1878)
* ''
Gilbertolus atratoensis''
L. P. Schultz, 1943
* ''
Gilbertolus maracaiboensis''
L. P. Schultz, 1943
References
Cynodontidae
Freshwater fish of Colombia
Magdalena River
Fish of Venezuela
Taxa named by Carl H. Eigenmann
Fish described in 1907
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